(a) Responsibilities of owners and managing operators. Any person who is an owner or manager of a property subject to any provision of this Code or regulation of the city shall be responsible for compliance with all of the provisions of such Code or regulation. An owner or manager shall be held liable for all violations of any such code, in connection with any land, buildings, structure, or matter or thing owned or operated by him or her and for any expenses incurred by the City in the enforcement of such codes.

(b) Responsibility of corporate officers and directors. Whenever a corporation shall violate any of the provisions of any code or regulation of the City, such violation shall be deemed to be also that of each of the individual directors, officers or agents of such corporation who shall knowingly have authorized, ordered or done any act constituting in whole or in part such violation or who shall knowingly have acquiesced in any failure to act constituting in whole or in part such violation, and such violation shall be deemed a violation of this Code, and upon conviction any such director, officer or agent shall be punishable to the same extent as is provided in this Code. (Code 1979, § 1-19)